Region: Central and North America
Year of begin: 2005
Year of completion: 2009
State: Finished
Type: Direct Cooperation
Sector of activity:
Urban development and management (CAD 153)
Culture and heritage (CAD 164)
Recipients:
55 families
Led by:
Other partners:
Havana City Historian's Office
Municipal Areas involved:
Urban Planning
Overall budget: 554.126,36 €
Contribution of Barcelona: 369.636,36 €
- Comprehensive restoration of all the properties on Carrer Barcelona.
- Setting up of the Barcelona-Havana centre.
- Durable renovation.
Comprehensive restoration (façades, roofs and communal elements) of the 12 properties to undergo alterations. Parc Barcelona to be redeveloped and work also to be carried out on the street and street lighting.
Special attention to be paid to the restoration of street number 63, which is in a deplorable state and is to house the Barcelona-Havana centre.
After two years of negotiation, an agreement was signed in 2005 and work started in March 2006. Over the course of the last three years, more alterations were made to the properties than was first planned. This is a pioneer project in the extent to which standard Barcelona protocols and procedures were used.
The project was completed in March 2009.
